A Young Person’s Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn is another great atmospheric piece composed of primarily string noise.  Piano, guitar, and strings provide a backbone to what Dunn has developed into his unique stylist movement.  Dunn’s work is a synthesis of classical and modern drone ambience typical of Sunn O))), and at all times a cinematic landscape.

The vast majority of minimalist collectives have an all too familiar feel.  Dreary soundscapes and uneasy mood pieces all too often give way to depressing ambiance.  KBD’s AYPGTKBD (wow) is one of few works available that excercises the complete opposite.  It is a negative of a different sort.  Dunn takes you to a place where society is a metropolis, a gyrating systematic machine, and Dunn asks you to look deeper.  Below the surface of modern life, there are many things unseen.  Being able to see the tranquil and peaceful characteristics in the most minimal of places has a big payoff.  AYPGTKBD is an album that peers through the pressures and chaos of modern civilization and asks you to lay on your back in a grassy field and watch the clouds move by.

Dunn has delivered a negative of modern times, a negative with a positive outlook.

Tonality is the key that makes this album work.  Every track on the double-disc release flow seamlessly.  Slowly, but seamlessly.  There are high points to the album that define its overall ambience.  The first forty-one minutes of peaceful drone give way to a wonderful airy track titled Promenade.  It is at this point that the album truly opens.  The fog lifts and the light pours through.  By the time Dunn reaches Empty Gazing, patient aural tides pulsate the listener into a peaceful coma.   The album ends properly.  Sets of Four (It’s Meaning Is Deeper Than Its Title Implies) brings a release, as piano chords play the listener back to consciousness and wake them into reality.  The album closes with The Nightjar, as his most interesting guitar drones decay away into turbulence.

A great listen through and through, we can all expect great things to come from Dunn in the near future.

-Paul Marshall, Maximus Creative (July 29, 2010)